must beware of what C. S. Lewis called “chronological snobbery.”

The oracular nature of prophecy

Others contest the complementarian view by disputing the meaning of (“head”). Egalitarians typically define it to mean “source” instead of “authority over.”64

Beyond this one office, however, there do not appear to be any other restrictions on women in public leadership in ancient Israel.

When the information in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John about Jesus’ life and teaching is evaluated against the backdrop of OT practice and intertestamental developments, remarkably positive data concerning women stands out.

We are debating the role of women in ministry in this book, not whether husbands and wives have different functions within a marriage. And yet this latter issue cannot and must not be neglected, for the biblical teaching about the family forms the fabric and background for what is said about women in ministry. If role differences exist in the famil

Approximately one-third of the people Paul greets in Romans 16 are women, a striking statistic by the standards of ancient letter writing.

Sin has entered the world and distorted how men and women relate to one another. Men transgress by turning their responsibility to lead into a privilege so that they tyrannically abuse their authority or abdicate their responsibility and descend into abject passivity. Women try to subvert male leadership by contesting their leadership or by respond

Male headship among Christians should never be authoritarian or heavy-handed, as one often experiences in the non-Christian world. Tragically, it is often in complementarian churches where one finds a greater authoritarianism than in the secular workplace!